Freedom for all

For our country boots were worn
Hands were raised and oaths were sworn
To serve this nation and motherland
Soldiers readied to take a stand

Thunderous sounds would fill the air
Bombshells flying everywhere..
Bravely being a voice of the free
You died defending our liberty

We all salute you all, today
Veteran soldiers in harms way
Man or woman,,, rich or poor
Thanks for protecting what we stand for

Some might scream and frown at war
But you've marched bravely through that door
Keeping violence from coming here
You battled through with heavy gear

Watching death come near and far
Your own souls would bear the scar
Of every person witnessing war:
Freedom for all, is how we score...

What happened to loving.......?

What happened to loving; and what happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

The world is so needy our families are all broken
There's plenty of fighting yet hope goes unspoken

What happened to loving; and what happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

The saddest of all stories,, the most heart rending of news
Is that we have enough love to give but its hatred we choose...

What happened to loving; and what happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

The skies up above us and the earth down below us
Joined with the creatures in singing this chorus :

What happened to loving; and What happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

The buying; the selling;  the humongous propaganda
Cannot destroy it the hearts need for  something less random..

What happened to loving? What happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

We're ready to give all for the causes and cameras
But who will be ready for the giving less glamorous

What happened to loving? What happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

The world's needing warriors without weapons or bullets
Who'll stand up ready for the spreading of goodness

What happened to loving? What happened to caring? 
Have we all forgotten that we're created for sharing???

So don't try to come back to me...

If you walk away from me I'm not going to chase you
So think over, carefully; everything, you're going to do...
I am not going to beg you; and I am not going to pray
That you would be in my life, in any sort of way...

So, don't try to come back to me ; for this door won't be open 
Don't come back here promising to heal what is broken
Once you have hurt me; you won't hurt again
So if you're walking out; don't expect to come back in.

You called out  my secrets; then,  broke down  my spirit
Said you were  here for me: but...the opposite exhibited
All of my heart was poured out in one sharing
Not knowing your agenda was anything but caring..

So, don't try to come back to me ; for this door won't be open 
Don't come back here promising to heal what is broken
Once you have hurt me; you won't hurt again
So if you're walking out;  don't expect to come back in.

Sometimes I easily believe the kindnesses shown me
Not wanting to believe there can be malice or impurity
But that is my weakness and my frailty of character
To believe one who is telling me: "I'll be here forever"

So, don't try to come back to me ; for this door won't be open 
Don't come back here promising to heal what is broken
Once you have hurt me; you won't hurt again
So if you're walking out;  don't expect to come back in.

Just like the others who have broken or beaten me
You came with such suavity that I listened so willingly
Collecting your diamonds to sell to the enemy
You broke into my heart space within intentions of calumny

So, don't try to come back to me ; for this door won't be open 
Don't come back here promising to heal what is broken
Once you have hurt me; you won't hurt again
So if you're walking out;  don't expect to come back in.

Desensitized

The world is weeping; she is sending up her sighs to God the Almighty above
She is questioning everybody, questioning everyone around "where is the love"
Why are we becoming so indifferent, so very deeply desensitized
Yet preoccupy ourselves with our own appearances: our egos are greatly magnetized

The universe is all upset and reeling from all the violent actions all around
She is wondering why we can't see it:  so much inhumanity is everywhere found
The world is all so needy; yet  so blinded by this awful spreading disease
It's infecting everyone, and it leaving everyone with humanistic tendencies..

We're becoming, so easily, something else we weren't ever meant to be
Dressing up in garments and jewelries that cry out to everyone "look at me"
Yet we are so blinded, not seeing everything that we should be  noticing
People right next to us, go on struggling: alone with their own suffering

With the angels

Calling out to each of us, the angel spirits  will whisper..
As they pull  us to the quiet times,  and say:   "come. you hither"
Pointing out the beautiful-ness; the loveliness all around;
Angel guardians remind us all... how Heaven can truly sound

While the morning star is rising.. songs of an unearthly kind
Illuminate my heart and soul and soothe my waking mind
Inspiring me with the words to  rhyme and giving you words to read
Guardians of this universe will always bring us what we need..

Before the rush, of all our day, the angels will beckon and plead
That we should stop, and take some time, and inhale the love we need
Pouring out to  us through all: through all we can hear and see
God the Almighty Father is nourishing us with His Immortality

This is who I am...

I cannot hide my feelings and I cannot cover up my being
I am who I really am; and I'm all that you are really seeing
Nothing is ever borrowed and everything is authentic
I cannot be anyone else dear, I am naturally this poetic

This is who I am  and this is really me
Nothing is artificial: everything's what you see
I cannot change my being and I cannot be untrue
I am truly being my happiest when I'm doing what I do

I feel everything so deep inside me  and process all very slowly
My very first inclination is to be quiet; but, not lowly
Fanfare would appall me and so would any false grandeur
If you were being untruthful I would call you out, for sure

This is who I am  and this is really me
Nothing is artificial: everything's what you see
I cannot change my being and I cannot be untrue
I am truly being my happiest when I'm doing what I do

Something about that fakeness that's sweeping round and around
Has put me into a wonder: where is the realness to be found?
Too many the sheep and followers of the empty promise makers
Who will stand up to challenge those obviously gifted fakers

This is who I am and this is really me
Nothing is artificial and everything's what you see
I cannot change my being and I cannot be untrue
I am truly being my happiest when I'm doing what I do

Morning morsels

Don't be the rug for another's feet
If they're not nice or kind or sweet
Depart from them; yes, walk away
Their dust, their dirt.. can darken you day

You've tried your best; it's been so tough
Your attempts and pleas were not enough
They've closed their eyes: refused to see
The beauty, the love, you want to be..

The guise of faith can make it hard
It appears so sweet but acts like shard
Tearing, dividing,  and making a show:
It's sparkles and shines: but cuts you know

The soul that loves will be that shine
That comes from God, the Great Divine
Without the pew or place of prayer
Their lives keeps shouting: God's everywhere

So head these lines and hear them well
A church can't save or send  to hell
Only a heart or inner voice
Can tell us if Heaven or Hell's our choice

What gives you the right..?

You stand there, gawking; and judging me
You with all of  your Christianity....
A Sunday singer, who's always there:
How can you mock me.. yet kneel in prayer?

You claim you're a believer in the Holy Book
But tell me a passage.. that supports your look
What verse or number can you point me to
That says I deserve all this treatment from you

Have you forgotten it...  that sacred line
That says your loving must "Be more like Mine"
Not hiding your light or burying your gift
Something inside you must surely shift..

The time is slipping and its disappearing fast
Before you know it, you'll be breathing your last
The hours of silence and the Sunday Mass
Will not mean a thing .. if you're an ass..

You see it all....

Words I couldn't say tears I couldn't cry
All them resting here; within this soul inside
I might run and hide; I might question why
Things don't make much sense ...should I even try..

Take this heart dear Lord; take my brokenness..
Fill it up with You; with all your Holiness.
I cannot describe the pain: cannot speak a word
Years of anguish Lord: unuttered and unheard...

You see it all dear Lord, Yes,  You  see everything
You see my inner hurt the wounds that continue to sting
The utter helplessness: the view of life and death
I surrender it all to You: Giver of lasting breath.

It is so...

The leaves, they move and sing with the wind
It comes to visit again and again
The squirrels,they play; the birds,  they peck:
The world is awake, with beauty, on deck..

The sun, it'll rise and the moon will too
Each one is ordered to do what they do
The elements, the plants, the world as a whole
Is acting, reacting, like body and soul..

The effects we have, the choices we make
Become quite a blessing or a terrible mistake
For the world so near or even quite far
Our pain, our happiness are yours ...they are

We are never alone and we aren't ever apart
We're joined together through love of His Heart
The sufferings; the sorrows;  the joys we all know
Can change all the world: it is so, it is so...

They need love...

Feathery creatures on my sill
Whistling brightly: heart and will
Fluttering quickly; seeking seed
Created beauties:  yes indeed...

Crawling, jumping all around
Squirrelly creatures can be found
Playing, twirling,peeking through
They can use a friend like you

Sailing subtly through the  breeze
Butterflies fly and so do bees
Colorfully sounding soft and sweet
Insects sing with tones discreet

Morning evening noon or night
Creatures speak and give delight
Created  for us,,, from  Above
They are like us:  they need love..

She kept it hid from you ...

Because you didn't see it:  you never knew what happened to me
And because you never asked you never  knew my tragedy
But the sorrows I carried inside me, will always be as before
Memories etched inside my spirit and guardians of my door

You never really knew, all the sorrows that I had known
Or the fears I had to face; when I was child feeling alone 
But the pages of all  my angels will echo deep and true
This child was truly a victim and she kept it hid from you.

You cannot begin to understand it: the secrets I chose to hide
I didn't call attention from others,  I kept them hidden  inside
But little by little they came out: these messengers of my wounds
And said "it's time for healing" and it couldn't have been too soon

You never really knew all the sorrows that I had known
Or the fears I had to face when I was child feeling alone 
But the pages of all  my angels will echo deep and true
This child was truly a victim and she kept it hid from you.

So I go through mixed emotions and am a stranger to  my kin
They haven't ever really known me: I wouldn't know where to begin
We lived in a different era and we all knew a very different day
So when we're  speaking  of  happiness: I can't relate to what they say

You never really knew all the sorrows that I had known
Or the fears I had to face when I was child feeling alone 
But the pages of all  my angels will echo deep and true
This child was truly a victim and she kept it hid from you ...

With eyes wide open....

Gentle light of morning ..shine your light on me
Show me all your radiance: beautiful as can be..
Looking through the windows: coloring trees and sky
Radiant star of morning: thanks for passing by..

Calming breeeze of morning moving here and there
Whisper to my spirit secrets from everywhere
In your every movement, in your touch serene
Show me all earth's needy:  visible and unseen...

Quiet flowing waters dropping from the sky
I can hear the echoes of those who weep and cry
In the splashing rhythm of your shining glow
I can hear the whispers, of angels, don't you know..

Morning, noon and evening ..hours of every day
Carry their own agenda: things they want to say
But,we with all our movement: our have to's all galore
Often, miss all the messages, that each minute has in store

So today, we'll take the challenge: to listen a little more
And see with eyes wide open : the wealthy and the poor
We'll hear in every raindrop the heartbeats from far away
And see inside each sunbeam the light of eternal day....

People, in Here, love well...............

Today, I cried and I wept and then I decided to say:
My God and my dearest Creator, has shown  to me this Way:
Not loaded down with many booklets or laden down with many pews
But having so many people who were wearing or not wearing shoes..

Somehow, I couldn't believe it... that this, was Heaven's gate
For it looked so very different, than the Heaven when I was eight...
It didn't require memorizations:  it didn't speak of fiery Hell
But did  point out most strongly: that people, in here, love well...

I stared in the most amazing silence and waited to hear some more
When out came the Great Almighty from the Heights of Heaven's door
Booming with all of His Majesty and stooping down to me
He lifted up my drooping spirit and whispered this so lovingly ...

OF all the many qualities and of all the people I can choose
It isn't any of the most likely that will capture My Morning Muse
For the people are being so programmed and are also so prepped to be
Whatever "the molder" will make them but few are really so free..

As to act from within their spirits  and to love without any lye
I'm drawn to the most humble of renegades, who will boldly choose to fly
Over all of the lands of the "have to's" and over all the seas of "me" and "mine"
To share the love  of their Creator which can make all things Divine...

From all this I went out to ponder and then I went outside to cry:
I have stood in the presence of the Creator I have seen Him: Oh my, oh my
We have been so badly misled friends and we have been so stuck for so long
That we don't realize the phony fallacies and cannot see the right from the wrong..

Be the peace, be the calm...

Hear the sound of all the breezes
Whispering words that time unfreezes
From the towns and from  the cities
Sounds the sorrows that no one pities

See the left and see the right side
Each are wrong; when comes the eventide
We can fight or we can solve it
All the chaos infecting our spirit

Can't we see or are we blinded
Peace is what we need..let's find it
All the world and all the cosmos
Is upset with all of our egos...

Help me to love...

Lord give me a heart that's ready to love
Everyone and everything as You do from above
Give me Your eyes and give me Your mind
So I can be selfless with all humankind..

Yes, I have been selfish and I have been mean
Help me dear Jesus, I want to be seen:
As giving and kindly and loving to all...
I need You dear Jesus please answer my call

Lord give me a heart that's ready to love
Everyone and everything as You do from above
Give me Your eyes and give me Your mind
So I can be selfless with all humankind..

The morning has brought me  another new day;
Please remind me dear Jesus to watch what I say.
I'm quickly judgmental and slow in my prayer
Help me dear Jesus to be welcoming everywhere..

Lord give me a heart that's ready to love
Everyone and everything as You do from above
Give me Your eyes and give me Your mind
So I can be selfless with all humankind..

The ways of this world are calling its true
Help me dear Jesus to be loyal to You
Let me not murmur and let me not hate
Time keeps on passing and its getting so late..

Lord give me a heart that's ready to love
Everyone and everything as You do from above
Give me Your eyes and give me Your mind
So I can be selfless with all humankind..

Those storms cannot harm you

Don't be afraid of the storms that you see
Though you feel alone now:  you'll always have Me
I'm here with My angels and here with My love
Don't be afraid of the lightning above...

The winds, they are blowing; but they cannot harm
Those I'm protecting despite all alarm
I'll comfort and soothe you and whisper your name
In good times and bad times, I'm always the same

Whenever you're frightened and battered inside
Remember.. I love you, you needn't not hide
Your interests, your worries. all matter to Me
Come now,  My child,  I help you be free..

Today is the tomorrow I was hoping to see

I sit here and listen to the songs in the wind
Beautiful melodies from the outside coming in
Blue Jays and bluebirds and robins all sing
Listen oh listen, there's beauty in everything...

The grass blades are swaying; the elements..too
Whispering and echoing  the "Eternal I Love  You"
Beaming from the Heavens with God's purest light
The star of the morning is keeping things bright

Gone are the shadows and gone is the night
Lost in the aura of the morning's purest light
Gathered from the Heavens and given to me
Today is the tomorrow I was hoping to see..

I'll find God's comfort..

My heart is tired from being so strong
I want to cry the whole day long
The months been hard and difficult too
I want some time to process: I do..

The need to work has kept me calm
But death has left me seeking the psalm
That speaks the words I want to say
I'm going to search for it right away

It's something how the Good Book works
It'll step right in, when the spirit shirks
It;ll  comes alive, when all seems dead
The bible is the best book I've read...

So to its pages I'll gladly flee
And seek some solace for someone like me,
Who needs a hand and a hearty cry,
I'll find God's comfort and love inside...